Ó³»´«Ã½ of MIT and Harvard Presents "A Conversation with Paul Farmer and Tracy Kidder"
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Please join us for a conversation with Paul Farmer and Tracy Kidder. Together, they will discuss Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, the roadblocks to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and why quality healthcare should matter to all.
7 Cambridge Center, Auditorium
Friday
October 20
3pm
Free and open to Ó³»´«Ã½ members and affiliates
Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award, among other literary prizes. In addition to Mountains Beyond Mountains, Kidder is the author of The Soul of a New Machine, House, Among Schoolchildren, Old Friends, and Home Town.
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty.
Dr. Farmer is the Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a MacArthur Genius, and recipient of multiple awards, including the Heinz Humanitarian Award, Margaret Mead award and the American Medical Association’s Nathan Davis Award for Outstanding International Physician.
